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Lapeer County Couple Ordered To Stand Trial For Murder In Dog Mauling
LAPEER (WWJ) – It’s a first of a kind case in the state of Michigan. A Lapeer County couple has been ordered to stand trial on second degree murder charges after their dogs mauled a jogger to death....
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Novi Man Convicted Of Killing Elderly Neighbor For Cash, Jewelry To Buy Drugs
Peter Gerard Jones (Booking Photo) NOVI (WWJ/AP) – A Novi man has been found guilty of killing his 84-year-old neighbor. The Detroit Free Press says an Oakland County jury deliberated for a little more...
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Man Convicted Of Killing Couple, Dumping Dismembered Bodies In Detroit River
(Booking photo) DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - A jury has convicted a man of killing his ex-girlfriend and her fiancé, chopping up their bodies and dumping the remains into the Detroit River. Roger Bowling was...
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Crime Stoppers Offering Reward For Information About Detroit Murder
DETROIT (WWJ) – Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward up to $7500 for information leading to an arrest in the murder of 49-year-old Bradley Sollars. Sollars was found on the third floor of a vacant...
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Police Execute Warrants In Case Of Warren Woman Found Dead In Drum
Theresa DeKeyzer (credit: Crime Stoppers) WARREN (WWJ) – Warren police executed several more search warrants Monday in connection to the murder of a 22-year-old Warren woman whose body was found in a...
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Police Investigate Fatal Shooting On Detroit’s West Side
DETROIT (WWJ) — Detroit Police are investigating a fatal shooting that took place Monday evening around 8:30 p.m. on Dayton near Penrod on the city’s west side. Police say the victim is a black male,...
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Charges Might Be Filed In April Millsap’s Murder; Attorney Says Person Of...
James Donald Vancallis (Booking photo) ARMADA (WWJ) - Murder charges could be forthcoming in the death of a 14-year-old girl who was found strangled along a popular nature trail, but an attorney for a...
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Bob Bashara Heads To Trial In Wife’s Murder
DETROIT (WWJ) – Bob Bashara, who is charged with hiring a hit man to kill his wife in Grosse Pointe Park, will stand trial for murder. Wayne County Circuit Judge Vonda Evans had floated the idea of...
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Couple’s Dismemberment Gets Man Life In Prison
DETROIT (AP) – A man convicted of killing a Detroit-area couple and dumping their body parts into the Detroit River has been ordered to spend the rest of his life in prison. The Wayne County...
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Port Huron Woman Convicted Of Killing Ex-Boyfriend
PORT HURON (AP) – A Port Huron woman has been found guilty of killing her former boyfriend. The jury returned its verdict against Judy Higley-Zuehlke on Friday. It found the 44-year-old defendant...
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Ex-Con Turned Handyman Charged In Elderly Man’s Murder
Bart Mitchell Spencer (Booking Photo) BLOOMFIELD TWP. (WWJ) - A 45-year-old man with an extensive criminal past is facing a slew of charges in connection to the death of a 77-year-old man who tried to...
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Mixed Testimony In Sentencing Of Mom Accused Of Trying To Kill Autistic Daughter
JOHN FLESHER, Associated Press BEULAH, Mich. (AP) — Friends and relatives painted conflicting portraits Monday of a Michigan woman who admits trying to kill herself and her autistic daughter, with two...
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Prosecutor: U-M Student’s Killer ‘Indifferent To Life’
ANN ARBOR (AP) — A prosecutor says a 22-year-old man had an “indifference to human life” when he fatally shot a University of Michigan medical student in his off-campus medical fraternity house....
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Potential Jurors Questioned For Bashara Murder Trial
DETROIT (WWJ) - The jury selection process has started in the case of Bob Bashara, a Grosse Pointe business man charged in the murder of his wife. Bashara has already been convicted of trying to put a...
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Man Ordered Held Without Bond In Murder, Sex Assault Of Armada Teen April...
ARMADA (WWJ) – The parents of a murdered 14-year-old girl sat in the front row, holding hands, while the man accused in her death appeared in court for an arraignment Thursday. James VanCallis, 32,...
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Man Convicted Of Murder In Death Of U-M Student
ANN ARBOR (WWJ/AP) — The man accused of shooting and killing a University of Michigan medical student was convicted of murder — along with other charges — in court on Friday. Prosecutors say that...
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Joe Gentz Refuses To Testify In Bob Bashara Murder Trial, Could Lose Plea Deal
DETROIT (WWJ) - A metro Detroit handyman turned hitman says he will not testify. Joe Gentz, who confessed to the 2012 strangulation death of 56-year-old Jane Bashara in the garage of her Grosse Pointe...
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Novi Man Gets Life In Prison In Killing Of Elderly Neighbor While Out On Parole
PONTIAC (WWJ/AP) - A Novi man who was convicted of murdering his 84-year-old neighbor while he was out on parole for another killing will spend the rest of his life behind bars. An Oakland County jury...
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Former Mistress Testifies In Trial For Grosse Pointe Park Man Accused Of...
DETROIT (WWJ) – Bob Bashara’s one-time mistress testified Thursday that she thought she was the reason that his wife Jane Bashara was murdered. On her second day on the stand, Rachael Gillett underwent...
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Officials Seek Help Finding Information Regarding Body Found In March
DETROIT (WWJ) — Officials are looking for information regarding the body of a black male which was found back in March on Detroit’s west side. The body was found in the rear of Greenfield Rd. near Joy...
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